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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="create-vm-wizard-hardware">
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| 4 | <title>Set Up VM Hardware</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <ol id="ol_ndb_dbx_4bc">
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| 8 | <li>For <b outputclass="bold">Base Memory</b>, select the amount of RAM that <ph
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| 9 | conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> should allocate to the virtual machine
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| 10 | (VM) every time it is started. The guest OS will report this size as the VM's installed RAM.
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| 11 | <note type="caution" id="note_pjs_x1x_4bc">
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| 12 | <p>Choose this setting carefully. The memory you give to the VM will not be available to
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| 13 | your host OS while the VM is running. </p>
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| 14 | </note><p>Do not specify more than you can spare, whilst ensuring you allocate enough for
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| 15 | your guest OS and applications to run properly. For example, if your host machine has 4 GB
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| 16 | of RAM and you enter 2048 MB as the base memory for a VM, you will have 2 GB left for all
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| 17 | the other software on your host while that VM is running. </p><p>A guest OS may require at
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| 18 | least 1 or 2 GB of memory to install and boot up. If you intend to run more than one VM at
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| 19 | a time, plan accordingly. A VM will not start if it does not have enough RAM to
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| 20 | boot.</p><p>Always ensure that the host OS has enough RAM remaining. If insufficient RAM
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| 21 | remains, the system might excessively swap memory to the hard disk, which will effectively
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| 22 | bring the host system to a standstill. </p></li>
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| 23 | <li>For <b>Processor(s)</b>, select the number of virtual processors to assign to the VM. Do
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| 24 | not assign more than half of the total processor threads from the host machine. </li>
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| 25 | <li>Select <b outputclass="bold">Enable EFI</b> if you want to enable Extensible Firmware
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| 26 | Interface (EFI) booting for the guest OS.</li>
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| 27 | <li>Click <b outputclass="bold">Next</b> to <xref
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| 28 | href="create-vm-wizard-virtual-hard-disk.dita"/>. </li>
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| 29 | </ol>
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| 30 | </body>
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| 32 | </topic>
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